Fluid limits of string valued Markov processes

Annals of Applied Probability

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 860-889

  Dantzer, Jean François ^a   Robert, Philippe ^b  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Bandwidth allocation; Bin packing algorithms; Dynamic bin packing; Ergodicity; Fluid limits; Multiclass queueing systems

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036389824     PISSN: 10505164     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1214/aoap/1031863172     Document Type: Article

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